Melissa Johnson, a homeschooling mother of six writes for The Catholic Catalogue about how teaching her children about the saints has helped them understand the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria. More after the jump:

See what the Catholic Church is doing, through Caritas International, to help refugees who have fled genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. The Roman Catholic Church is the world’s largest humanitarian organization. What the videos after the jump:

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